BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellee Silbrico Corporation, as titleholder of a perlite processing mill, instituted this suit under 28 U.S.C. § 2201 seeking a declaratory judgment as to the legal effect of the mill's surface encroachment upon an unpatented lode mining claim owned by defendant-appellant Herman Ortiz. Ortiz counterclaimed pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 13 alleging Silbrico's breach of a mining lease, forfeiture of the encroaching structure, and...
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